Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup

Another Jewish holiday! Tonight begins the seven-day Festival of Sukkot, where Jews give thanks for the harvest. So get yourself an etrog (it’s like a lemon) and, as the Torah instructs, shake your lulav. (Don’t get too excited – it’s the closed frond of a date palm tree.) Israel and Hamas struck a deal to […]

Lauren Markoe

Lauren Markoe covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before joining the Religion News Service staff as a national correspondent in 2011. She previously was Washington correspondent for The State (Columbia, S.C.)